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Not all learning happens collaboratively: successful learners need to be reflective as well as collaborative. Effective Web 2.0 tools provide for personal reflection as well as more social approaches to learning. Some wiki software makes it easy to control read-write access on a page-by-page basis, while with other software this is quite difficult to manage.

Some e-learning specialists feel that Web 2.0 tools like wikis have no place in vocational education because of the risks of ‘faulty knowledge’. I don’t agree, but I do believe we need to identify the risks when we are planning, along with what we will do when ‘faulty knowledge’ is contributed. The potential benefits of exposing ‘faulty knowledge’ outweigh the risks, but we do need a well thought-out plan for dealing with it.